The Lord God hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks. (Amos 4:2)
Here God pledges by His own holiness to avenge Israel’s unholiness. God’s very nature cannot tolerate iniquity forever (see Isa. 6:3, 5).
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Probably the enemy, the instrument of God’s punishment. The words “hooks” and “fishhooks” indicate that the Israelites will be utterly helpless before their enemies, and so will be captured for destruction like fish caught with hooks (see Jer. 16:16; Hab. 1:14, 15, 17). The drawing out of a fish by a hook is painful to the fish, and is made doubly painful when the fish resists.